All posts tagged "Labor Pains Week"
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Labor Pains: My Epidural Didn’t Work — Twice
I made sure to tell everyone, from the nurses in admitting to the anesthesiologist as he set up...
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Labor Pains: I’m Frustrated By My Toddler’s Late Milestones
We’ve been here before, my daughter and I. She was a late mover. A late roller. A late...
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Labor Pains: The Top 5 Scariest Real Life Births
The parameters under which these women delivered their babies is far scarier than any conventional labor pain.
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Labor Pains: My Husband Left The Delivery Room Out Of Concern For Our Sex Life
I felt sort of terrible for him because he wasn’t quite smart enough to realize that, instead...
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Unbearable: Infertility Has Made Me Consider A Drug Free Labor
After years of trying to get pregnant, it's given me a lot of time to think about labor...
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Labor Pains: My Parenting Choices Aren’t Choices Because I’m Broke
I'd like to think that my parenting choices are just that -- choices. But at the end of...
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Labor Pains: I Thought My Birthing Pains Were UTI Cramps
I was 34 weeks along with my first pregnancy. It’d been an extremely easy pregnancy and at my...
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STFU Parents: 4 Things You Shouldn’t Post On Facebook About Your Labor
Since it's Labor Pains Week on Mommyish, I figured I'd add to the conversation with a...
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Labor Pains: My Natural Birth Made Me Appreciate My Epidural
I was never against the drugs. Drugs, I thought, were for other people. For people who could tolerate...
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Labor Pains: After I Gave Birth, People Still Thought I Was Pregnant
I was completely shocked when a week and a half AFTER I had my baby, and attended my...
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Labor Pains: My Birthing Classes Are Scaring The Crap Out Of Me
“You’re all first time moms, right?†she smiles broadly in her pink scrubs. We all nod, looking around...
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Labor Pains: The Recovery Room Didn’t Have Shit
Scratchy towels, no blankets, and the only “product†that was in the bathroom was hand soap. So all...
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Labor Pains: My 6-Week Labor Lasted Three Pushes
At 32 weeks, I went into hospital with vomiting, seeing black and white spots and abdominal pain -...
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Labor Pains: ‘The Business Of Being Born’ Gave Me A Birthing Complex
Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein's documentary, The Business of Being Born, helped educate thousands of women about how...